Its been amazing with the cintiq 22HDT and the ultrawide Dell 3417W, so much powerful real estate!

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I'm surprised with the work that you do that no one recommended a dedicated scratch disk. I suggest getting an 850EVO or another 2.5" SSD that serves as nothing but a scratch disk for your Adobe programs. You will absolutely notice a performance difference, I did.

I'm surprised with the work that you do that no one recommended a dedicated scratch disk. I suggest getting an 850EVO or another 2.5" SSD that serves as nothing but a scratch disk for your Adobe programs. You will absolutely notice a performance difference, I did.

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I figured with a TB of SSD I wouldn't need it. Your saying it helps to have a dedicated disk set aside for scratch, even if you have plenty of room on the one?

You can find scratch disk performance benchmarks and articles on the web. I'd go for a SATA SSD that your budget allows considering the types of files you work with, the extra cost of NVMe isn't justified in my opinion.

My setup before when I had my desktop was a 512GB 850EVO for the OS, 250GB 850EVO scratch, and a 2TB 2.5" storage HDD that was accelerated by an m.2 SSD which basically turns it into a hybrid since the cache of the spinning hard disk is taken care of by the SSD.

I miss my build, all of that stuff including water cooling was in a shoebox sized mITX case.